{"nrhp_refnum":"79001589","name":"East Avenue Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Eastman, George, House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Irregular pattern along East Ave. from Probert St. to Alexander St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.15396387200005,"lon":-77.58349476355649,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-04-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mile-and-a-half long residential historic district along East Avenue in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, with about 700 structures. It includes the avenue's large mansions, churches and museums plus surrounding side streets of smaller houses, mostly from the 1840s to the early 1900s.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the district as one of the greatest catalogues of nineteenth and early twentieth century urban residential architecture in New York State. Unlike comparable avenues in Buffalo and Syracuse, it kept much of its original character as Rochester's \"grand boulevard\". It was home to the city's wealthy business and professional leaders from the 1830s onward. The side streets echo the avenue's styles on a smaller scale.","narrative":"East Avenue in Rochester, New York, is lined for about a mile and a half with large houses, churches, meeting houses and museums set back behind tree-lined sidewalks and wide lawns. The district holds roughly 700 structures, with the grandest on the avenue itself and smaller residences on the cross streets. Styles run from Greek Revival town houses of the 1840s to Italianate villas, Queen Anne homes, and the Prairie-style Boynton House by Frank Lloyd Wright. Other landmarks include the Sibley House, Woodside, and George Eastman's forty-two room mansion, now a photographic museum. Third Presbyterian Church, dedicated in 1893, has a 140-foot tower. The avenue developed after the 1830s as millers, bankers and executives left the crowded Third Ward for more spacious grounds. Unlike Buffalo's Delaware Avenue and Syracuse's James Street, it avoided heavy commercial intrusion, and many mansions now serve as clubs, museums and offices. The district was listed for its architectural and social history.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 and 1900-","architect_builder":"Frank Lloyd Wright; McKim, Mead and White; J. Foster Warner; Claude Bragdon; Leon Stern","architectural_style":"Mixed styles from Greek Revival through Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Prairie style to 1950s-60s \"new formalism\"","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent to good and altered. Many mansions have been converted to institutional use or multiple dwellings, and the turn-of-the-century residential character remains largely intact despite some intrusions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.681195-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/79001589.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001589/49817edb36-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001589/49817edb36-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tim Pierce","credit_html":"Tim Pierce, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strong-Todd_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318796","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5327764"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/east-avenue-historic-district-79001589/"}